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UNITED STATES JEREMIAH A. SCRIVEN,

GARM

PATENT OFFICE.

on NEW YoRI N. Y.

ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,195, dated December 31, 1901.

Application filed June 14, 1900.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J E-REMIAH A. SCRIVEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garments, and has for its special object to improve the construction of nether garments.

My invention will be described herein with reference to the accompanying drawings, which show a garment in which my invention is embodied, and the salient features thereof will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of a garment in which my invention is em bodied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged broken-away exterior view of the crotch of the garment, the direction of view being indicated by the ar- Fig. 3 is an enlarged brokenaway detail View of the interior of the fork or crotch of the garment and the lower edge of the fly-opening. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 40f Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5 of Fig. 3, andFig. 6 is a broken-away detail View of a portion of one of the elastic strips Z).

In the drawings the garment is shown as provided with a body portion a and leg or tubular portions 0. These portions are of material which is termed for convenience inelastic materiahalthough the said materiahof course, has elasticity, the idea being that this material is less elastic than the elastic strip insertions I). These elastic insertions b are shown herein as bifurcated strip insertions, set in and running longitudinally of the legs of the garment, being secured thereto by their edges. Each is continuous, but not necessarily made in one piece. The insertions extend upward into the crotch of the garment and are preferably made of knitted elastic material whose wales or ribs run longitudinally of the said strips. The branches of said strips fork at the crotch or fork of the garment, one branch 1) extending upward into the rear of the body of the garment asan insert, being preferably united to a similar branch b of the other elastic strip or insert b and to the body of the garment by its edges.

serial No. 20,235. (No model.)

The strips b preferably have their wales running longitudinally and are preferably united at the crotch, with the ends of their wales abutting, by a row of stitching e, which also extends upward and unites the branches b. The other branches b of the strips 1) are crossed at the crotch of the garment, as most clearly shown in Fig. 3. These branches b cross each other at an angle, so that the wales or ribs of one branch or member cross the wales or ribs of the other branch or member, the double structure or two-ply insert thus formed preferably lying immediately below the lower edge of the crotch-opening and being so set in the garment as to receive the lateral and longitudinal strains on the lateral and longitudinal lines 5 5 and 7 7 of the garment, so that this double insertion may be defined as a plurality of strips crossing each other to form a two-ply gusset or insert, the wales or ribs of one ply crossing the wales or ribs of the other ply at an angle, and the insert being so set in the garment that the lateral and longitudinal strains upon the insert are received on lines diagonal to the said wales or ribs. The branches 17 extend upward alongside of the edges of the crotch-opening and are secured thereto, so as to firmly stay the structure, preferably by lines of stitches b at the edge of the crotchopening and b at the edge of the'insert, which stitches b extend downward into the crotch, as shown. The edges of the branches b are felled or turned under at the lower edge of the crotch-opening d and there secured together, preferably by stitching, so as to form.

at this point a rigid structure which will not yield to the lateral strains on the crotch-opening. It will thus be seen that the inserts b and. b will readily yield laterally and that the inserts b will be extraordinarily elastic over the field of their crossing on lateral. and longitudinal lines of the garment-and will be extremely rigid at the lower edge of the crotch-opening d.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The herein-described garment the same comprising a body portion and leg portions, bifurcated elastic strip insertions extending between the edges of the non-elastic leg porthe garment in such a manner that the wales of adjacent insertions meet and portions of the insertionsextend beyond the point of j unction.

3. The herein-described garment the same comprising a body portion and leg portions, and a plurality of bifurcated elastic strip insertions extending between the edges of the non-elastic leg portions, one branch of the bifurcation of each elastic insertion extending upward into the body of the garment and the other branches crossing each other at or about the lower edge of the fly-opening to form an elastic gusset the wales or ribs of one branch crossing the other at an angle to the wales or ribs of the other branch, the said gusset being so set in the garment as to receive the lateral and longitudinal strains on the garment on lines at an angle to both sets of wales or ribs.

JEREMIAH A. SCRIVEN;

Witnesses: v

Orro v. SOHRENK, G. W. STRANAHAN; 

